Enlargement, subdivision and individualization of statistical shape models: Application to 3D medical image segmentation

This thesis presents three original and complementary approaches to enhance the quality of Statistical Shape Models (SSMs), that improve the accuracy of medical image segmentation in challenging applications. First, we enhance the statistical richness of SSMs by developing a technique capable of mer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Pereañez, Marco
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/441754
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/441754
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Active Shape Models
Cardiac magnetic resonance
Computed tomography
Conditional models
Magnetic resonance imaging
Model fusion
Patient metadata
Personalized medicine
Statistical shape models
Vertebral segmentation
Modelos de forma activa
Resonancia cardiaca del corazón
Tomografía computarizada
Modelos condicionales
Imagen de resonancia magnética
Fusion de modelos
Metadatos del paciente
Medicina personalizada
Modelos estadísticos de forma
Segmentación vertebras
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Sumario:This thesis presents three original and complementary approaches to enhance the quality of Statistical Shape Models (SSMs), that improve the accuracy of medical image segmentation in challenging applications. First, we enhance the statistical richness of SSMs by developing a technique capable of merging the shape representations and statistical properties of several pre-existing models with no original or additional raw data. Second, we enhance the geometrical quality of SSMs by developing a framework for modeling simultaneously both global and local characteristics of highly complex and/or multi-part anatomical shapes. Last, we improve the specificity of SSMs for specific subjects by integrating individual-specific non-imaging metadata such as demographic, clinical and behavioral variables into the SSM construction and image segmentation tasks. These techniques are demonstrated and validated by considering various imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), and different complex anatomies, including the human heart, brain and spine.